Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 4, 1879, Page 4

TIE CHI0AGO TRIEUNE: TU of dollars annually by the Governmont, are making the Government pay for the whola work over again Ly excesiivo verdicts for damages! Whilo this is going on in TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Congress and in Wisconsin, the ninotaon Rep- ek . | rerontatives from this State scem to be pow- D-“‘l'y Flttom. ont vear. e s mfl:‘llfl‘zm erlesa to attract attention tothe great pation Ay By erar Al highway from thelakes to the Blississippi, on which tho State hns cxpended 8o many - Thye Teibane, millions of her own money, and Whioh re- quires comparatively so little to complete. While Congress ia distributing from six to eight millions of dollars a year for all manner of cbjects, hiera iz & water-route 300 miles long, nearly complete, aeking;Congress for n small cam to aid the State in opening one of tho grandest works of improvoment of the kind in the world, Though the State hos expended six millions of dollars on it, the Lighway is of too great an importanco to be the property of any ono Btate, or to bo supported by tolls. It must be free, and therefore the Btate of Illinofa is willing to surrender the whole in feo simple, and without any drawback, rent, or demand, on condition that Congress shall construct tha fow locks yet remaining to ba completed, nnd finish the widening and despening of the eanal. While the Wisconsin people aro gelting three millions for the fruitless job of trying to make a hard bottom of sand, tho Tllinois delegation onght, by a united affort, to have this already nearly comploted work in thig Btate takon by the Ganeral Govern- ment, finished, and made n free national highway. Give Post-Onice County. Lemittances may be made elther by draft, express, Post-Office order, or In reglatersd letter, st our rlsk. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Datly, delivered, Bunday excepted, 33centa per week. Dally, delivered, Bondsy fncinded, 30 cents ver weeke Address TRE TKIBUNR COMPANY, Corner Madtson and Dearborn-ita., Chicago, Til. Orders for the delivery of Tstx TaInuXE st Evantton, Englewood, and Tiyde Parx teft fn the counting-room willreceiva prompt attention. 0o TRIAUXR bas established branch offices 10‘2’{:?:‘3!‘9‘ of subecriptions and advertisements as faliows: NEW YORK—Room 29 Tribune Bullding. £.T.Ma- Slanager, France ~No. 16 Rue dola Grange-Datellere. H.ManLEm Agent. LONDON, Eng.—American Exchange, 449 Strand. Exnar F. GirLio, Agent. SAN FHANCIRCO, Cal.—Palace Hotel. WASHINGTON, D, 0. 1310 F street. AMUSEMENTS, MoVicker's Theatre. Sladiton street, etween Dearborn and Btste, En« gagament of M1ss Ada Cavendlsh, ‘*Jane Shore.” Tlaverly’s Theatre. Dearborn street, corner of Monroe, Fogseement ©of Oates' Comic Upera Company. **Le Petit Duc.” JUDGE BLODOETT AND THE HIBBARD BANGS CASE. That part of tho Congressional investiga- tion which covers the matters relating to the Hrooarp business has been sufficiontly ex- hausted to enable the non.partisan public to reach n conclusion. Mr. Hruparp is Register in Bankruptey. One of tho legal requirements of his office is that ho report at the closo of ‘each fiscal yenr (Juno 30) the wholo sum of tho fees collectod by him during such year. Thexo roports had to be verified on oath by the Register. The feos in bankruptoy wore of two kinds: (1) There wera foes received when ench case was institnted, snd (2) fees recotvod at Inter times during tho progress and pendency of the case and up toits final delermination. Mr. Hmsarp adopted the suppreasive policy of fncluding in his reports only the fees collected by him on all now business institnted during tho yoar, and omitting any account of fees ac- crued and received by him from the multi. tude of cares begun before that fiscal year, The result of this kind of nccounting was thus shown : Reglater's feen rsenlved llu(, :u-n .I’n hn%- JREkey from duly b Ien e s som Amount reported by Rezister... ... ... Underatated... Fees received for 18 Amount reported by s Understated..... Fees recclved for1877 .. Amount reported by Heyl Hooley’s Thentre. Rancoloh street, tetween Clark and Las grgement of the Criterfon Comedy Com Boys.” Fne “Qar Acndemy of nusic, Tlalited street, between Madison and Monroe. Va- ety entartainment. E Hamlin’s Thentre, Clark street, opposite the Court-House. Varfety en« tertsloment, Hershey Music-Hall. Madivon street, opposite MeVicker's Theatre, Dala- ‘brega the Wizard, Metropolitan Theatre. Clark street, opposite Buerman Jouse. Varfety pers formance, MeCormick Jinll. North Clark street, corner Kinzle. Tive-King Concerts. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1870, —_— Remenz! and In the Broooerr investigation yesterdny tho time of the Committeo wns mainly ocen= pled in tho henring of additionnl testimony touching the subject of the Iimpanp indict- ment. A now charge was brought forward by the memorinlists, boing that Judge Brovexrr borrowed and converted to his own uso monoys in the custody of Assignees in Bankruptcy. 1,600 14,204 6,087 4,000 13, 845 0,225 It is n gratifying indication of the im- proved order of things in the Connty Board that but four votos out of fifteon wero cast in favor of going on with the expensive and H i 6810 impracticablo dome project in the building | , ‘mdmulmltii'd"m tm of tho Court-House and City-Ifall. The Amount anderstated 1870 4.000 taxpayers have scen the last of tho doma | Atmount understated 1877 4,010 stenl, which had nmuun}ad to §79,000 for the Total... Alerdereiss . 10,825 But theso suns do not include the whole amount of Hinpanp's suppressions of foes. Tho oxport accountant, Mr. A, L. Rosr, tes- tifiod that nt tha request of the Bar Associn. tion he made nn examination of the books of Mr, Hinnarp, Register in DBankruptey, to ascortain the amount of fees nod emoluments earnod or received by him for the years end. ing June 30, 1876, 1876, and 1877, in such cases only a8 had been roforred to him during thoso years. Witness was subpawnaed and testifiod bofore the United States Grand Jury in Octobor last, and gave substantially the same testimony as ho now gave to the Com- mitlee. Wao copy from Lis testimony: V' The {tems that he obtained from Hinasnn's feo-books, in which ho ascertained the amount of fecs earned or recelved in these three years re- spectively, Included no foes charged or recelved by Bir, 1linBakp for the proo) of creditors claimns, from tho fact that Win nanD kept no record of such fuce. Witness did not take such fees fnto con- aldoration becanse ho could not ascertain them, o asked [genaun for information on the subject of such fees; stating that he woald like to get tho mmount of fees for proofs of clalme, and Iitnaann promiscd to make out a list; but witness never could get i, because Hinpano sald he bad not had timo todo It. Witness obtained some lnformation on the subject, howerer, from the Assigoees® ac- counts in some svecial cases; but none of them entered Into bis computation, nor did ne Include atrining Sfor examinatlon of deblors or other parfus, nor anything bat what appeared on the Jexister's fou-book, Thiere was nothing on the Jee-book Jer tha tuking of lestimony. The com- putation incrided notbing for fees earned or re- celved for examination lo bankruptcy, nor fur proof of clalns by credltors,* How many thowaands of dollars per year those uucntered, corcenled foes for taking proofs of creditors’ cl&ml or oxamination of debtors or other partics, aggrogate is un. kuown aud unesthinated, On what construc- tion of the law thowe fees were not returned the Rogister has not explained, and they aro not coversd -by Judgo Broporrr’s opinfon in regara to former-year cascs, ft appoars that llmpazp, in addition to tho * proot” fuew, omitted from his report oll foes oxcept for new businoss, cluiming that the lnaw did not require'bim to roturn any fecs but those for nuw busiuess, though in fact the fues for old were about one-half as much as for now business, Mr, Buanrey, tho Clerk of the Court, advised Iinninp that his roport shosld include all his foes, bt Isnaup Lad previously consulted Ju.go Broparrr, and argued or twisted an unof. ficial opinfon fram tho Judge that he could satlufy the logal requirenmient to yoport Lu 1ues by lonving alarge past out, foundation nlone, and will be glad to know that it has been sbandoned, and the rotunda plan mutually agroed npon by the city and county suthoriti Extraordinary modsures are belng taken by all tho Governments of Eastern Europe to prevent tho introduction of the dendly plaguo now moving westward from Central Asin, Tho strictest quarantine regulations s have been ndopted by Austria, Germnny, and Turkey, and all passporta are to contain pro- vislons of a sanitary character, which will nlmost procludo intercourse botwooen these countries and tho Russian Empire. Tho utmost alarm exists in Russin, pooplo being actually panic-stricken in and around locali- ties where the disoase hns made its appear. ance. 'This state of things Is scarcely to be wonderod af, in view,of the foarful mortality which'sccompanies the scourge, ns shown in the dispatches published elsowhore. P — The memixable conflict over the New York nominatitng bas resulted in o victory for the Presidert and a defont for Sonntor ; ConxiiNa, aud thy country hoa reason to ; congratulate itself {hat such'hns boeh tho : outcome, This was not a question alone g ; to whether the New York appolntments ) should continue under tha,. control of Sena- ' tor Coxxring; it had beon ealarged mto o national queation, which wia, whether the rovenuo should or should wuot be | honestly collected at o port at which two-thirds of the imports of the United ‘ States araraccived. 'The merchants in every State in the Unlon were iutercsted in know- § ing that the custows rcvenue nt Nuw York i was to bo honestly aud cfiiciontly eollected, ; and that undervaluation, dumage-allowanco, ‘, robates, and other forms of rascality should 1 no longer giva the importers of 'New York oo unfair “adi ‘ntugo. On the one side tho Admiuiaterl‘on stood flrm for the re- , xfoval of Asmiva and ConNert and the ap. /" pointmetit of Menntrr and Buwr; on the : other sido Mr. Covxriva mamshalod tho _yulendars of the old Honatorial prerogative - of tho coritrol of Fedural appointmonts,—+*u <'cnstom thoro honored in the reach than in ,/ tho gbservance.” It is fortunate for the cougtry that tho President was viotorious, for it it had beon possible to defeat the at. tempt to do away with corruption and fraud in the New York Qustom-House, aud impos- siblo to secure bonesty and eflicioncy thoro, it would bo uscless to hopo for a faithful col- lection of the revenuo amywhere, Public ¢ = In course of timo this omission matter sentiment fn tho West was a unit | o 1 Leforatho Bar Assoclation, and the in support of the President, aud the 4 coustruction t¢ bo pluced on the law was argued with & great deal of foeling. All thowo presen) wers lawyers. The Associn. tion, Ly & baro majority, decided that Hisuawn's construction of the law sbould not be conwursd. Subsequently the Grand Jury invesgigated the whole bankruptey mansgement, and, with great unanimity, found au indictmont charging the Registor with having tuken illegal foes. It has been #aid that the indictment was for taking in the aggrugate only §18 of illegal foes, The crime was in the {llegality of the exsction, and the person who framed the indictment, inselecting threeinstances for formal acousa- tion, probably assumed that, in case of con- viction, the viudication of the law would be the ssme as,'if threa hundrod iustances of extortion had been specifically et forth in the lnd‘\gu.nnut. A Rogister in Baukruptey can hasdly ask that a lapso of merality be measured by the weight of the _infant. ++'The Grand Jury, however, wont further. Hinaun's roports exbibited that ho owitted from them abojjt oue-third of the fecs actually "["fecoived, und ho having mads oath to the truth of tbz:pu reports, the Grund Jurydirect- €d that on indictwent for perjury be frawed aguinst him. On this point we quote from the testimony course of Benators Oovessy, Kinkwoop, Oauznox (Wis.), Feany, Bavspens, Winno, and MoMinzax in voting to confirm tho ap. pointmonts will moot with tho warmest commendation. 'Tho West hos beeu the Lioaviest suffercr on account of the Now York frauds, and it is not easy to seco what valid explanation to their constituents of their votes agaiost confirmation can be offered by Senators Davin Davis, Avvisow, Howe, Joxxs (Nevada), Pavvock, Cuarree, and Trerrys,"vot to wmentiou tho iWestern Democratic Senators who sided with Conx- 10 in his dofonse of tho old offtclulk. —— The managers: fln;:\u.l River and Harbor Divilla iave got out the first edition of their work, and, of course, it includes a quarter of & million of dollars more for the proposterons pcha}un of tryiug lobiold waterfor vavigable purpaso in the sandy sivve of the Wisconsin Riveobed. The exponditures for this sink-hole bave already reschod. fur np- iuto the millions, but the ppssibility of any. thing bewg accomplished, exoppt tp.gi: Pouwp the Utle of the grand- Wisconsln, is as remote as ever.-Ju addition, we now have the zeport of the Begrefary!of War protesting that the Courts and juries of i Wisconsin, not content with the sonual ¢ sivking of from half to s quarter of u million of two Grand Jurors, Mr, Suoop snld to the question— ***Do yon know how many Grand Jurors were present whon you voted to find an indictment against Hinnann for necfury?’ hink there were twenty-twopresent. Aman from Kankakes, Mr. Bnany, was aheent. ‘There were none who voted against it, [think it was a rising vote. T thinx ail roso to their feet excent one man, ana he didn‘t vote. . We had tae iaw br- 4] fore unos to tho duty of Mr, Ihineann In making these roturna,' " Mr. WiLniaxt Doney, juror, said they in- dicted Mr, Thnpaup for recciving illegal feca first. All tho jurors were prosont but one when they voted to indiet him for making falss roturns, It wns o rising vote. One man didn't rise, but thers wns uo ob- jection, and it was ealled a unaninous volto. At this stago of the business appearcd Jndge Baxas, tho District Attorney, who has in porson told his own story of his own doings, which story, had it been rolated by auy other man, would have been accepted as o deliberate and malicious attempt to belittlo, degrade, insult, and defamo Judge Davos, and to ronder him in the eyes of the Bar and the publio ne the weakest specimen of tho Bar, the most nbject public oflicer who over confessed himself a° fnilure, and tho most cowardly proseontor that over kopt bimself hiddon Jn the dark lest emorging into the light he might bo met by his own shadow and inter- rogated by it ns to his own idestity. Such was tho representative of the United States! Such the deputy of the Department of Justico! For forty-cight hours he kept-tha Grand Jury from adjourning; for forty- eight hours ho dodged nud evaded tho Grand Jury, promising to produco the indictment, Lut never doing it. At lnst, confessing Lis utter ‘‘ambignity,” ho sought refugo in the privato room of Judge Brovarrr. There he told the Judge that the bloodthirsty Granger jury were panting to indiot Register liis. BaARD for perfury, and that tho offenso was for suppressing all hia fees in his sworn roports, nnd, confessing his fear to face twenty-threa inquisitors, piteously appealed for somebody to soreen him from respousibility, Jndge Brovaxtr frankly told the Attorney that Hissarp had asked his construction of the law, and he Lad given ft as his opinion -that ho was not obliged to include the fees received from casos commonced in former yoars; and that, as Hmparp had scted on tho ndvice ho sought, it would bardly be fair to indict Lim for what he had dono under such cir- cumstancos. Away poated tho mushy min- iater of justico, and, telling tho Grand Jury that Judge Brovaerr would not accept the indictment, ho (Baxas) would refuse to lot them get their hands on tha ono his assistant bad drawn, or to sign an indictment if they drow it themselves | It {a but just to state, as part of this ex. troordinary case, that tho Diatrict Attorney nover read tho indictient which bhad been propared; he nover showed it to Judge Broparrr, who theraforo did not know what it contained ; aud the indictment whioh he rofused to sign was nctually one under which the party could have been convieted (if guilty), whether Hinpanp was right in his construction of the law or not, In all the testimony the reader will have noticed that from the boginning to the end there ina total absonco of any possiblo cor- rapt intent or motive on the part of Judgo BropogrT in tho whole Listory and detail of tho Hinpanp business. There hoas not been a breath utterod against his integrity; not an in.vrenco suggested that ho was moved or instigated by a corrupt purpose. ‘The fact has boen that ho has beon surrounded by a gang of cravens, who, honest or dishon- ost, knaves or asses, over-sharps or imbeciles, havs avaded their own duties and responsibil. itios, and sought refuge in the Judge's cham- ber, behind the Judge's chalr, and, presum- ing upon his kindness and friendship, have thrust his unofficial advico botwoen thom- selves and responaibility, Ilimoanp and Davos are both striking instances of how Judge Bropoxrr, at (heir importunity and from kindnosa to them, has, without the sus. picion of corrupt intont on bhis part, boon involved by these two officers, each ploading Judge Brooaerr's unofficial opinion, ex. prossed not Ly tho Court, but personslly as between two frionds, Humpano stands indicted for one offenso, and escaped indictment on the other through tho remarkable conduct of Banas, Of courso Hinnano thrusts Judge Brobuxrr forward as reaponsible for his own acts of concenlment, Hed HMinnazp been a candid officor, thore would have beon no protext for any peculiar construction of the law, He sought to dis- guiso the fact of his onormous fees, and thereforo resortod to the ingenions davice of supprossing a large part of them in his ro. turns, Out of thiv suppression of the truth and the sunggoation of a falsshaod, Loth &worn to, has grown this complieation iuto which he has entangled Judye Brobaer, A proper as woll ns a just discrimiuution be. tweon Hisnaup and Baxas ou the one hand aud Judge Bropakrr on the other, is cason- tial to a truo understanding of this jnvestiga. tion, 'The attompt of Hinsanw to put Judge BroporTT on trial before the publio for Hiu- nanp’s owa acts i the sumn and substauca of ull that part of the investigation concerning the bavkruptey businoss and its outgrowth, ——— THE CHESTER PENITENTIARY SWINDLE. ‘The Chestur Peniteutiary fruud, which wus donounced two years ago by I'ux Cutoiao "Prinuse, v heginuing to bear fruit of the sort that was predicted. Tho ouly error modo by Tue Tuncye was in underestimat. iug tho aize of thy job and the bigness of tho stenl, ‘I'hie poople of Illinois are mow ina fair way to reallzo ‘tho fnll oxtont of the fraud that the Punitontiary Ring has hmposed upon them. It will be remembered that ‘Tue TIBUNE opposed tho Jocation of a pou- itentiary at thot poiut, way down in the southwestern corner of tha State, because it was fwproper and jusccessible. It was jm- proper because it was & job engincered by the Jaxx Busy Ring to dispose of ground that was lying idla ou their hands. It is in. ncoesaiblo becauso it is alinost 100 miles from auywhere, located on a little branch road that ruus off on a side-switch to nowhore in partic. ular, It iain a hilly, rocky, barren country, for away from any wmarket, and possessed of none of the advantages which a penal locali- ty should have. The site itself is of such a character that it will require an enormous amount to finish the baildings, aud, as there is uothing that convicts can do thero, and uo market for anythivg if they conld preduce it, they earn nothing to offset tho cost of keep- ing them, Thore is not an advautaye of any kind nor a reason of any sort why a penitou- tiary should bo laocated thero, and yet tho Legislature two years agoe played iuto the Lands of the Buxy Ring, rojected Alton, o great produciog and railread contre, | with ovegy advantsge in its favor, and nccapted Chuster, whosa very exiustence previons to that time was uukuown ta nivety- vioe-hundredths of the peopla of the Btate. It wus selected in the face of umni- versal protest. It was sclected with the go that it wis At ontircly improper lacality ; that public sentiment wns opposetl tait, nad that it was o job of a cormpt and shiamoloss chnrnc An effort was made to stop it by process of law, but thix also fcll throngh, "Yhoe Ring was trinmphant. Over S200,000 have alrendy been expendid, and now it has jolned hamds with the Kanknkee Asylum Ring, and the two aro tnking n Jomt rush on the Tegislature for $900,000, of whieh the Peniteutiacy Ling propose to take £400,000 and tho Asylum Iling the ro- mainder, This socond grab will not be the last one, bocauso no nmount of money can mako this Gon-forsaken and man-sbandoned locality avaitablo for penal purposes, If we were in want of a pennl colony where convicts could ba sent to starve, Clicster might answer the purpose, but for penitentinry purposes, s wo understand them in this country, it hos not n singlo ndvantago, and must be o per- potual drain upon tha taxpayers of Illinois. Now that the Scnato Ponal and Reformatory Committeo have been to tho place and found by nctnal observation that it ia n awindle of the first magnitude, thero is some hopo that tho cormpt Ring may be ohioked off, aund that ihis socond grab of nearly half a million dollars may bo pre. vented. If tho Legislature sanctions it, the members will do it with their eyes wide open, and will bo Leld strictly rospousible. 1t would be better for the Stats to sacnfice what has alrendy been squandored than to koep on equandering money upon o place that can never be adapted to the purposes of n penitentiary, 'Tho peoplo of the State 3 will look to their representatives to strangle, this iniquity bofore it goos nny farther, Tho Govornor himself lins alrondy gone further than fs compatible with safety, aud shonld rotraco his stops while thero is time. Every man who had any connec tion with the locatfon of the Teni- tentiary ot Chestor should be kicked out of offico at once. 'The appropriation should be peremplorily rofused, and tho Springfleld Ring should meet tho recoption usually ac- corded {o common thicves. The people of fllinois are pecuniarily interosted in this mattor. It is out of thelr pockets that this money must come, and they will no longer submit to any underhanded operations. The swindle hns been bronght to the surface and thoy will keop it there, 80 that if the mem- bers of tho Legislature prove recreaunt to their duty and vote the Ring permission to mako this soccond grab, they will do so with the knowledgoe that it {s n swindle, and will bo held rosponsibla for it. BRAGG AND THE BRIGADIERS. From the dny of Ler's surrender at Appo- matiox Court-Houso down to -the present timo there has been a loud-mouthed pre- tonso on the part of prominent Bouthrons of tho dosire of the Southern poople for roconciliation, harmony, snd penco. They begged (hnt tho Ilatoly-rebellious States should bo permitted to tako their old places in the Union, froed from the stigma of troa. son, urging that their people desired nothing but the privilege of laboring to ropair their shattorad forlunes, This prayer being granted, the people who so-innocently pro- posed to go to work on the ropnirs of their “* ghattered fortunes” proceoded to organizo themselves into Ku.Klux Klans, and with maosks on went gunning for * niggers.” They plended for universal amues- ty, on the ground that erring, re- pentaut ¢ brethron " rendmitted to the Union sbould not ba politically ostracised. This prayor being granted, the * brothren " organ- ized themselves into banda of soldiers known 88 White-Longuors, and procecded to mnssa- cre “‘niggers” and carpet-baggers nnd to ovorthrow BStato Governments. They de. manded thoe priviloge of local solf-govern- ment, protesting agninst the presence in their midst of United States troops. The troops wero withdrawn, and the restored, amnestiod, and troop-rolioved brethron pro- cooded to stufl thg ballot-boxes with tissge ballots, and to arrest and imprison by State nuthority the United Blates officors who mildly objected to the fraud, The amnostied brathren who wanted the stigma of thelrtrea. son removed in order that they might go about the work of repairing thoir shattored forluncs in posco jmmediately beeame can- didates for Congress aud got elected to the number of five score or theroabouts. As Boon a4 they took their soats they began to introduco bills for tho paymont of Rebel claims, Theso billa avre peuding thore now to the amount of milllons of dollars, The other day, Gon. DBraca, of Wisconsin, n Democrat, who hasn't much the appearance of n doughface, aud thereforo docsu't Lo loug in the Northern wing of the Demo. cratio parly—QGen. Brauo rose in his pluce in tho National Homss of Repe resuntatives, nud said Lo was op- posed to the payment of Southern Robel claims, 1o {utimated that the nation hud alrundy beon taxed onough through the Kebollion, aud that men who had taken part iu the Rebellion would do well to * aiug small ” on the subject of the creation of new debts, Tmmodiately thero was great com. motion umong the ona bundred Southern Hrigadiers on the Democrntio sido of tho House, Thers was n strong desiro oxpressod to pounce upon Gen, BRace theu and thers, But the Northern doughface Domoorats begged the Brigadiers to restralu their ardor, torupress their wrath, and hold their honiea, 50 to speak, until the great Domooratio party should seeura control of all branches of tho Governmont, Thoro is, howover, n destiny that shapes tha ends of a Houthern Brigudior rough, Lew them bow tho doughface will, 1lo is bouud to put his foot in Lis wmouth whenever ho opens it, Mence we Linve pre- sonted the curious spectucla of Congressmon Cuaryens, Hooxrs, MiLrs, aud Stvargron denouncing Gen. Brace most bittorly for declaring Limnelf opposed to Iebel claims in the sumo breathi 1w which they protost that thy ore also opposed to Rebel claims! This ridiculous attitudo in which thoy have placed themselves Dbefore the country is suscepiible of casy cxplanation. When Gen, Buada, to save bis party, demounced the proposed paymont of Rebel claims as an outrage, the Brigadiers becamo hot with' wrath aud loud. Iy threatened rotaliation, But the Northern doughface Democrats entreated them to wait, begged them not to supply ammunition to Ropublicans with whicl 1o destroy tho ju- fluenco of the Northern wing of the Demo- cratic party over their constituents, who do not propose to subumit to futther taxation to pay Rebel claima. "The doughfsces suc- coeded in accomplishing half their purposo. They wore able to induce the Drigadiers to mwako & preteuss of opposition to pey- mont of tho clalms, but they could not provail upon, thew to forego bitter as- suulte upon Gen, Bsaga personally, Tho ‘Southern peoplo demand tho preseytation of Jtlie ilgiwa ; tha Brigediers preseuted them ; Gen, Braag, in beholf of the Northern wing of the Democratio party, denounced them as unwortby to be vonsidered. The Brigadiers found themsel ern Democrats declared that the pushing of the claimn will result in the ruinof the Northern wing of the party. Sonthern Dem- ocrata—tho Drigadiers’ constitnents—deelaro that if their present Hepresentatives will not push them, thero are other Brigadiers who will, aud that the now DBrigadiera shall replaco tho old ongs. Aa all romds once led to Rome, #o now nll reasoning on the Sonth- ern situntion loads to this conolusion, namoly: that the masses of tho Sonthorn people liva in the conatant hopo of repairing the losses thoy suffered through rabellion by taxing tho peoplo of the whole country. Thia is what a Solid South means,—this and noth- ing else. The wrath ponred out npon Gen, Bnaaa by Crhusens and tho rest of the Brigadiers Is a reflection of the seutimont of the Houthern people. This rentiment is the product of a thirst for roveugo nnd ademand for money. It brooka no oppobition on tho part of the Congressional Brigndiers. They must obey or give place to more subsorvient tools. y THE MEMPHIS PROVISIONAL GOVERNNENRT ‘The City of Momphis {s not to bo loft for any length of timo withont a Government, thongh tho City Charter has been ropealed, the Mayor lias resigned, and the old Common Council dissolved. ‘Ihe Legialature of Ton- nessoe, forescoing that tho simple repoal of the charter wonld loave the affairs of thoe city in absotute clinos, passad ** A Bill to Estab- lish Taxing Districts, and to Provide tho Menos of Local Belf-Government for the Bame," tho effect of which will be to relieve the peoplo of Memphis, tomporarily at lonst, from their embarrassment. The bill in quaation providesthat communities embraced in the torritorial limits of such corporations in tho State ns havo had, or mny have, thoir charters sbolished, or a1 may surrender the sama undor the provis lons of this act, aro created Tox- ing Distriols; that the necossary taxos for the support of the Government thus cs- tablished sball bo imposed by the Legisla- lature, and not otherwiso; that n Board of Honlth, to consist of the Chiet of Police, a health officor, and a pbysicinn, shall bo or- gaunized; that n Police and Firo Board shall be composed of threo membors, one appoint. ed by the Govornor, ono by the County Court, and eno by the peoplo ; that the mem- ber of 'the Board appoiuted by the Governor shall be thae chief executive officer of tho Tax- ing Distriot; that tho Board of Public Works shall consist of five members, one appointed by the Governor, one by the County Court, and threo olected by the peoplo; that tho mombers of the Polico Board and the Com- miasioners of Publio Worka slwll coustituto a committee on ordinnuces or local laws to be known as tho ** Logislative Council of tho Taxing District.” This new Govornmont will not take effect until some time next month, *~ Meanwhile, tha city will be without any lawful Govern- ment. Tho collectivn of city taxos by the Courity T'rustee will go on, Lut there will bo no mandawmus tox collocted excopt that which is now on the tax-books for 1878; no mora suity against the city, beeause thers is nooneor thing tosue, It may bo that tha Courtas will finally docide the repeal of tho chiarter to ba unconstitutional; but this de~ cision cannot be reached short of & year or two, and the city will go on until then under this provisional Government, The Memphis Avalsnche, to which we aro ndobted for the nbove facts, says: *'Thera are ifty men InMemphia who are capa- ble in overy regard to adminster the new concern successfully, Hut these unhappily are not anxions todo tho work, There sra several hundred who aro anxlous to have posscssion of the "Taxing Dise trict thet are Incapablo of porforming the dutles assigned to thonew rulers, Thera can be no douglng without getting hurt, and an active part in local polittcs must now be played by the best, or the Devil will be to pay. Mayor Fruiviax rotires from public 1re 10iaining the confidence of the public In lls integrity and faithtuiness to the public inter- cats, Hu leaven tho dobt of tho City of Momphis $1,500,000 lcss than when ho was {nsugurated three years ago, If tho Commissloners of our new Taxing Dintrict can report the same reductlon of the public dent, tho people willtbo profoundly geatetul." REPRESENTATIVE g?AVEBRHLNI’ IN RUS. ‘Tl sncoessful conclusion of the war with Turkey hias now left Russia free to deal with the varlous ngitations for intornal roforms ‘which are continually coming to tho surface, Somo of thesg, like the studenta’ uprising, Nibiliam, and Socialiam, are of snch a blind and revolutionary character that tho Govern- ment does not stop to conskler them, but suppresses them and stamps thom ont with great eoverity, Tho latest movement for roforms, liowever, is one of a ponceful chare acter, and ono which will have to be consid. ered by the Governmont and recolve nn nnswor. It iain the shapo of a petition to tho Czar from 300 mombers of varlons Provincial Assemblies, imploring him to give the country ropresentativa institu. tious,—in other words, n Parlisnient,—and they point out to him that Hoclalism is fast becowing a positive dangor to the Empire and that it can ouly bo overcomo by the unitod offorta of the suonnrchy and the peo. ple, but the people now are in such n pas. slvo conditlon that they cannot lend effectives aid, ‘thoy call to mind that Russin hns poured gut hor bloed like water, and well nigh bankrupted hersclf to gecuro roprosent. ntivo institutions for otbers, and that sho hes just closed nlong and bloody war with Turkey to sooure ropresontative rights for tho Bulgarinus which tho Ruastan poeople do not yot eujoy. They say, **Siuce we freo otlers, why should we not ourselves ba freed from the restrictions lald upon us by s do- footive Legislaturo? Graut tu your own sub. Jects the inborn right of disposing of their own faturo, Qive thom in your genorosity what you bave given the Bulguriuns; then you will sea Low powerful, how flourishing, how rich Russia will become,” ‘Thiere is lmmonse force {n the prayer of tha petitioners, but how the Czar will rogard it romaina to bo seen, Ho far as Soclalism i3 concerned, or any other revolutionary dis- turbancos, the Czar has little cave, Thoy arise in the middle class. ‘The peasantry have nothing to do with them, and they are usually coufluned to students of the large citics. The Gzar, Lis army, and the peos- antry boing in accord, it 13 casy to quell theso disturbances, and they scarcely ovor mafo more than a passing ripple upon tho surface of Rusaian politics. Untll the peasantry fully undenstand thie value ‘snd importanco of reprusoutativo foatitutious there is no dunger that they will play auy part in theso revolutionsry sgitations, aud, unless Social- ism cau bo propagated in tho ermy, it can never scriously assert itself. Tho argument of consistency, howover, is a stroug one, snd one which s so porsonal that tho Czar can hardly poss it by with- vut ‘answer. Tho English papors are strongly of ovimon that Le will give it very careful considerazion, and perhops, to o cer- taiu extent, a favorablo reply. ‘'ie London Spectator thinks that, whilo u true coustitu. tionsal governmant in Russia is impossible st » the country cannot be gov. erned without n powerful Executive at the head of the#Army, the Ministry, and tho Chureh, still the Czar might grant as muech nuthority to n ropreseniative body ns the Holenzollerns have granted to their Parlia. ments, and that he evon has temptation to doso, 'The strongeat hope for this concos- slon lies in the practical bankrnptey of Rus- sin and the diflienlty she has in making loans. Bho in deaperately in noed of money, and even in despotisms the financial power is not so strong as in Governments whoro thero lics an appeal to n represantative body, The Russian Government itsolf las practic- nlly acknowlodged that it has exhausted tho power of taxing iis own peopls whon it pro- poses to inour fresh labilities, and it ndds to the misery of its financial situation that its securilies aro not looked upon with favor in any European market, Thoro avo reasons in plonty why the Czar slhould grant tho prayer of the petitionors, and it would bo n long step forward in the advancemeont of Russin; but it must bo ro- membered, nono the less, that the docision rests entiroly with tho Czar, and that, how- over burdensome the responsibility of gov- croment may ba to him, he mny not care to _abridge his powera or depart from the policy of his predecessors, Ho took one bold and liberal step, however, In the emancipation of tho serfs; and tho progross of events sinco thon, the examples all about him in Europo, and tho financial straits in which he fiuds himself, may lend him onca more to yleld and anticipato the dostiny which must sooncr or Inter givo the Russian pooplo the prerogativo they now asl JLLEGAL BANKRUPT PEES, Tha United Stales Grand Jury found a truo bill of wdictment against My, Hinnanp, the Rogister in DBankruptcy, for lavying and pockoting illegal focs, The frionds of Jlrn. panD belittled this indictment on account of the small amount that ha is charged with un. lawtully exacting from bankrupts,—the sum being only §18.50. Any Reglster, they ar- guod, might mnke a mistake in computing his feos for amuch larger sum than that trilo. Any Reglster,gnid they, Is liable to commit errors in the h\ste of business or by “ Jdofective srithmotical skill." Errors aro often made, no doubt, in the rule of throe,—sddition, division, - and si- lenco. Bat it happons that the Grand Jury found not only more thau ona mintake in favor of his own pocket, but hundreds of them. Tho mistakes wore multitudinous, ond always on Hinpanp's side of tho ladger. Tho newspapor roporters got hold of n good denl of tho Grand Jury proceeding, but in rogard to this partioular matter tho secrot was well kept, aud, until the Grand Jurors thomsolves testificd boforo the Oonqrnnflond Invoestigating Committeo last Friday, the public supposed that Hmmamp was only charged with having pockoted $18 of illegal foos, and that perhops by inadvertance, o was an object of sympathy, acd looked upon 04 0 porsccuted aud barnased officer about a matter that was too insignificant for consld. oration, Wo confess to having been im- presucd in tho same way; but the recent ravelntions of the Grand Jurors have thrown cold water on those warm sympathies. Lot us mako o few exirncta from the testimony of Mr, P. M. Suoor,of Abingdon, IlL., formerly in tho mercantile busineal s vSgyeral days,’ he sald, the Registor's cusen, A large number of witnesses worecalled. 11o wan satlefiod, s a juror, that Hinnanp bad taken lllegitimate focs in soveral In- stonces. 1o coald mot say how many of the cstates referted to the Register woro examined by the jury, Thu reaultof the cxamination was an fndictment agalnst him for charging )legal fees.” s+ iCan you remeuber what was tho aversge amount of filegal fees ho hiad demanded and re- catved in the diifercnt eatatea?’ ssw¥rom my own fgures and the estimates I made, Seach scemod to figure for himself and come to his own conclusion,—from $14 to $20 0r $22 10 each omate.’ + +Can you remember of having found any es- tato which Lad buen referrod to lliunanp where thore were no Illegal chargest' s+ 41 think we found In every cass that I fooked at that there swers Hiegal charges.* ++Congrassman Culberson—*Yon eay you found legnl feea hiad beon charged to the extentof $14 or §16 in cach case. What did they sll aggregatel’ ++*1 aidn's put them Logether." Do you recoliect sbuut how much?t No, sir, I couldn't say about that,' ¢+Mr., Knickerbocker— ‘Do you kuow that you lndicted Mm for only $18.60—ounly charded Bim witl recolving illegal fees to that amount? +4 “That was aot my understanding of it, My un- derstanding waa that wo found lezegularitics in tho charges, and that wo' bod found an indictment for taking \egal feen, fo a darge amount I should sup- e in lhe ugyregals to thousanda of dollars, perhaps, taking the number of cases we had, and »0 much incach bat I made no figures or estiins *41n furthor answer to Mr, KXioKERBOCKEN witness sald the Indictment agatvst Me, Jlinnann for taking Wicgal feca wax found suma time before the 224 of November, but \was not returnad becauso it hought beat for the jary to finiah all their # and wake oua reluru. ‘bt mado you think tbat way, If theta was aun?! ‘neru acemed o be some rezeons in the minds of somo of tho jury that there was not the best fecline exlsting between the jury and Judgoe Brovurrr, particutarly when we would go on thut Hinpann caze,' Mr, Jaes E. Mongow, the foreman of tho Grand Jury, living in Yontiae, tustitfled **The Grand Jury Inveetlated sowme dfty Lo 100 estatea in which Jegloter Hunanu wmade over. charged, ranging from 310 to §40, 820 Lefng about the averago, agxreguling nearly $2,000, Tue nnatiness of the umguat fn the dndlctment surprised hui, aud wowe of the Jurors waked Judgu Baxus about Itg b reply was tuat the three carcs would e sufticient, and that if they could prove taero wus au uvercharge, the peualty wud the same, " It will La soun from the foregoing that the fllogal feetuking wea not a litte jusig- nificant $18.50 Juntter, but that ho really was fudicled for lovyng thousands of dollars of unlawful fucs upon tho baukrupt estatos, Tho overcharges appeared to exist in all the eages investigated, ranging from §10 to §40 in csch case, "The Grand Jury wero astonished at the smaliness of the amount of tho indictment, but Baxca happened to re. member enough ot tho momont to nssuro them that it would Le suticient if the proot mado themstick, It was this mau who had practiced systaatio illegul foe-taking that got Judgo Bropoertr into bis tronble, Hu desired to conceal from the public the enor- mous amount of his pluuder and pickings from tho carcascs, of bankrupt cstates, and sought from the Judge such a construction of the law as would permit him to withhold from Lis roturns thousands of dollars of the suvual fees—legal and illegal—which he had pocketed. By so actiug he has brought trouble on his friend, Las placed Baxas in a pitiablo plight, aud got himself iudioted. Honesty is the bust of policy, even for Regis- ters in Baukruptoy, i * wers devoted to A Canadian newspaper, discussing the use of the French and Engitsh lsugusge fo Usvads, points to the predomtusace of the English, JItis uyusual, ft says, “to Guda Freuch Couadiag speaking French as it 1s to lnd & Frouch .Cana dian who docs uot speuk Egitah, © The English vapers have more Frenel Cauudian readers tha | bave the French papers. 1u the City Councly nearly one-alf the mewbers'are French Canas diuns, yet they atl wocak Euglish wore or less fu the transactlon of busmucss; while most of the English wivmbers cannot speak Freuch at M:Mile, GuEvy Ladn’s gugucticd with c.r::'; all, and those who arp a s ever apeak A word in flu:,lloh‘:e‘i‘:w:" Yang) Domlnlon Paclinment, - containpue" more than one-fourth of Froy. nns,l ““il leading men nearly all speak Englfs) ft I8 the exception for (;:xcb{:l::e:\l:y L an speak French In that@body, Todeer T 10 Fronch-Uanadlan membera of I’Arllm;\el nt ) English with greater caso than many h: i members with whom that language sy mfinuum, tongnie, On the other tand, yhere e stance on record I late years of "'»F"o!n. member formally sddrossing the llo"‘mm French. The samo remark s made of ‘f‘ el of Montreal. Al the leading Francy ot ¥ spenk English, some iy a manner tht n‘"[fl“m their English confreres might cnvy; vrh(‘ ke twoor three of the Engllsh speaic Fr:mvl \{. o well, The Itke curtons diference n )ul oy talent Is observable all over the Progipe. some of the castern townships, whemhe(;‘ I and Eoglish populations are about i) divided, the former all speak Enelish :llllll, lese, whila the latter nre as keneraily y s sposk French." bl tg I 2 g, h Cangy, among gy, W. F. Storex has acquired Grst manufacturiog l.:::lh:luul"}fil::l:l i ot Nishing It fu his Sunday edition, and grassle® citing his own paper In support of 11 wur mondacity. For example, h rts off vy this Mo in tho Sunday Times: o Jigyy, - previously annotnced, It is sald, tlm‘ym: n blped, *J. MEDILL must dance, ¥ 1y e 2 issue of hia paper he assumes the oy |,!.:f': to ba eatablished by tho asaertion made Iy o provious fasue, which ho quotes ay -uu\on“.'a Now, tho fact Is, {t I8 Sronzr himeclf oy, dances when HEstxa pipes, and thar Iulu frequently, Let* ANTON 80 much a3 nhhu::, WiLnun's heariog, and that sensilive olg d Is thrown fato o Sabit Vilus danee ":1“ wigalos, and wobbles, and wm;i. H Ilesina’s musie, s columas are lled wiy lizsixa’s dolngs and undoings, Lead, o aftor ““leader” fn devoted to the hisy ;. HEsixa and bis e and works, jast, gt ond prospective, 'The readers of the Timn S out to BTOREY to give them a rest from u;’,’. ING, a8 thoy have had & surfelt of hig, au would like to sco some other subject mm:u:d in the paper for the sake of change, Bt tle, don’t seem to koow that the old man un'xm' himself; that when Hesia Poes e m,: dance. It mnatters not whother Sronzr moved by Lis aflinfties or his antipathics for [ plper, he pirouettes all the same, "The o} way to stop the danclug 18 for the musidingy migrato to Arlzona. These Lo men are ulp acparated by the width of o street, g whea HesiNg, from bls seventh-story oftice-window, vlays his pipe, SToner, In his sizth stoty n; poalte, automatically waltzes, jizs, and flings, — The- new Loulsviilo imitator of the ¥ which is callod the dge, has a mind of ity awa, and at times an extremely scusible one, [y IL: laat issuc, for instance, it polnts ont the Tolly ot Mr, ELLts argumont, that the War has orer. thrown the old Nouthern Democratic dostsine that the Government has no right to miky Btate improvoments. *‘If the Governmest may do what wo agk,” romarks the Age, v only because by force of arms it has destrosed all limitations on its power, 1t fa & matter of dis. crotion with that Government whether it sbal not agaln take contral of our elections, 8x Gor. ernments not of our choosing upon w, andiy the end wipe out all the fuconveniences of Stats lines, State Legislatures, nnd State courte! Without subscribing to Democratic dostring o2 this subject, It Is easy to sec that the Agrhy not left much of Mr, Etnis’ logle, ——— Bonator INGALLS 18 likely to have trenblaln oroving up his credontfals before the new Sea ate. The soven Democrata who voted forkin ars accused by party organs of corruption; and though thero s not -the slightest evidencoct this, so far as heard frow, the unusual dream. stances under which they fnterfered In a purely Republican quarrel may bo sufliclent to gire the Democratic 8cnato o ground for action, I3 may bo supposed that the Democrats, fndirg themsclves in tha majority for the first timela many years, will not be sorry to make fareut pations wherever there 18 tho slightest appe ent occdsion for them; nnd Senator INoawLs, i a vigorous and succesaful Republican, would be & shining mark, e ‘The mystérious dlsappearance of BANKerbs been explaloed, Tle parted compsny with Moopy, aud is now singing at Neweastleor Tyne with the Rev. T, Cuamprxcss, of Londos, a8 his proacher, Overflow meetings have alresly been produced by theexertions of these taiested rovivalista, BMr. BANKEY ddes more talklogw this second vislt to Eugland than ho was e mitted to do when Mr. Moony was with biz. Those who retnember Moopy's eruel illustr- tlon (when,referring todlvegalty of gifts, besalt, “here's Brother BANERY who can't taik, ol hera sm 1 who'can't slng™) will understand boe it was possiblo for a serfous misunderstandiol ta orfse between the * coparcenera, e ———r = The Bar Assoclation has much cause for humiliation and sulf-abasement In view of ti disclosures concerning Reglster Hinuan thst havo beon made duriug the progress of te BropaxTT luvestigation. Mauv roputable meo- bers of the Assoviation have nover bcuntnxhlf-l sith its netion I this case; and, white it woa!d Lo absurd and unjust to hold the profsslon sponsible for the mistakes of soume memberssd it, thore can be 1o doubt that the [lisnan vr dfct has injured tho reputation of the A.uom- tion {tseif. The experlence of thls ease shad bo useful to the Assoclation fu the future, L s e Abrogation of the Canadlan tishery clawse ! the Washington Triaty will punist the Domit: fou for its aharp practice at Hallfax swiftly wd surely, It wiil not take loug to convlace st Croadian nelghibors tn thle way that bovesiy 4 the best poliey, ‘Iliey will loso mare bj the withdrawal of thelr right to send lsh il bt products to the United Stutes free of dmly a1 they will gain by thelr thicylsh *uward!" & vetory Evanrs should b suthorized to giveno tice of the terumination of the tresty ut Lot Mest possible moment. ———— - The Tresldent’s strony polut agalust (o6 LiNG was thut the Now Yorle Custon-fose through which two-thirds of the fmports of d-" country pass, is a national, nut s persiosh o flce. It will be hard for the renowncd Secslt to getaround that, Mr, CONKLING presusct lurgely upon the krmorance ol the people i he claling & persoun) superylaion over tiw- i of the hnportutions of the Uniou. o ee— - The New York Sus bLus at last brokea I slience, uud spoken on W cipher buslvess w saya the two persous moat to blume ure he l-“fl WitLias ORToN und the late Senater 310810 It 18 uot characteristic of the Sun to ulh:; blame upon dead weny wheu there are hnl“ ones to whom it belougs; but TiLpesh apectal pet, and 1L will do even u sonantt thing for lis sake. = ——— ‘The cablu was In error & duy or 1%0 “mm reportiog the death of ApoLy JE ol “author,” at Baden-Badeu. It should :| read “Ycomposer.” JRNSEN Was one uf the b known German wislclans and composrs V! 4 present time, especially fu bis work [or plano and orgen. His songs also uro ush favorites, and ase largely suug fu couvertd this country, Y e et——— Of course the Zulus are to Llame. 7“‘“':: African tribes. always are 10 m.\wo\thmu‘ Briush Governinent wants to take soother b of thelr territory, It 18 the dlwple "‘“”’D‘ uoss? of the patives which fs compells o Rland to aguex Africa’ from four poluts ¢ compass st 0AGO, 1t Mme. GmEvY hadu't scparated fro® f:’ hysband, she would now be Mra. Presideiti 1he 16097, #h6 Would bu fa bestar suchil ¥ fog, - . . e e— Whoever ls scquitted, Bayus will not b cau't fmpeach Lis own testiwony. "